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Implementing Photoshop 2.0 using GAN

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This has a pretty terrifying aspect to it... have we already passed the point at which no image seen on a screen can be trustworthy at all? How long until such a technology can easily process a command like "disrobe everyone in this photo" and produce a very believable facsimile of what the people in the photo would look like? Should such be seen as a violation against those people? The list of potential abuses of such technology is so very long and interesting and filled with pitfalls.

This would probably be a grey area. We're also long past the point where an image can be absolutely trustworthy (without digital forensics). Certainly digital 'fake nudes' exist and as with any image alteration, a professional artist can make something very convincing these days.

When you use a GAN (or any kind of infill algorithm) it's not an oracle. It's generating a visually plausible guess at the data you're replacing. You could give it a face and a body outline and ask it to fill in the gaps, but what you generated wouldn't be 'real'.

Legally who knows? It would depend on what the law of making an obscene facsimile of someone is (or whatever the law calls it).

>without digital forensics

How long till me make a GAN with the express purpose of defeating digital forensics?

You can already add a beard or a bald head to a person's face. Which authority will rush around preventing the creation of fake nudes?

That sounds amazing, I can't wait!

Te main flaw with DNN used in Photoshop-like apps is the speed; one would need 1000x faster GPU to make changes realtime as artists are used to now, instead of waiting a month for a single step to finish. Some trivial algorithms can be done fast already but most of them are way ahead of what current tech can deliver fast.

When deep learning gets better, the hardware support will also get better.

Photoshop 2.0 came out in June 1991. Think of another name for your idea? :)

Title had me confused, at first I thought somebody reimplemented Photoshop 2.0 in a new language or something like that.

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